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Dropthings: Web 2.0 AJAX Portal

Web 2.0 AJAX Portal built using .NET 3.5, jQuery Linq to SQL+XML, Inversion of Control, Dependency Injection and all hot techs you can grasp in one shot. It’s a project in use by large companies like BT, Intel, Microsoft and many Education & Govt Orgs in US and other countries.

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PlantUMLEditor: Code UML diagram fast

Produce UML diagrams at the speed of coding. It’s an IDE for writing UML diagrams using plantuml syntax that saves you from the horror of mouse focused UML designers.

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Fastest Streaming AJAX proxy in the world

It’s the fastest streaming proxy for making cross-domain AJAX call on your Web 2.0 sites. Support GET, POST, PUT, DELETE. Can stream large content directly from source without the double download overhead. Fully asynchronous, memory effcient.

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CPU Alert monitor high CPU and memory usage

Alerts you when there’s any process consuming high CPU consistently and burning your CPU and battery. Also monitor high memory usage by any process that might be slowing down other processes.

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ParallelWork multi-threading library for WPF

Feature rich multi-threading library to run tasks in parallel, chain tasks, update UI from background thread, terminate all tasks, wait for all tasks using a convenient fluent API.

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Ensure: Load html, js, css on demand

A tiny javascript library to load html, javascript, css on demand and inject on page. Handy for ajaxifying any website without using custom frameworks.

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UFrame: combine UpdatePanel and IFRAME

UFrame is the light weight Javascript only alternative to UpdatePanel and IFRAME to do AJAX cheap. You can load any page from your site with javascripts, css, and html on demand and inject anywhere on the page.

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Desktop Spy: email subject’s desktop screenshot

Secretly take snapshot of subject’s desktop screen and mail to you periodically. Handy surveillance tool.

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Desktop RSS Aggregator with Outlook

Read and aggregate RSS feeds into a desktop application and optionally send them to Outlook for more convenient reading.

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SmartClient with Office like Automation

Build a Smart Client using Microsoft Office like automation model. Highly pluggable architecture that is much cleaner as separation of concern is maximized.

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Website diagnostics page to diagnose your ASP.NET website

22 Aug 2010 at 00:51

Omar AL Zabir

Blog Posts

asp.net production

Whenever you change web.config file or deploy your website on a new environment, you have to try out many relevant features to confirm if the configuration changes or the environment is correct. Sometimes you have to run a smoke test on the website to confirm if the site is running fine. Moreover, if some external database, webservice or network connectivity is down, it takes time to nail down exactly where the problem is. Having a self-diagnostics page on your website like the one you see on your printer can help identify exactly where’s the problem. Here’s a way how you can quickly create a simple self-diagnostics page in a single page without spending too much effort. This diagnostics page tests for common configuration settings like connection string, ASP.NET Membership configurations, SMTP settings, <appSettings> file paths and URLs items and some application specific settings to confirm if the changes are all correct.

Read how to build such a diagnostics page:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/selfdiagnostics.aspx

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3. ASP.NET website Continuous Integration+Deployment using CruiseControl.NET, Subversion, MSBuild and Robocopy
4. Keep website and webservices warm with zero coding
5. Fast ASP.NET web page loading by downloading multiple javascripts in batch

No vision can grasp Him, But His grasp is over, All vision. He is Above all comprehension, yet is acquainted with all things. (Quran 6:103)

6 Comments

• by Hemanshu

  23 Aug 2010 at 10:22

  

  I have 300 web apps in my company. How can I create a dashboard which shows me the health of every app. At-least red-amber-green on various parameters and also overall.

• by Omar AL Zabir

  23 Aug 2010 at 15:29

  

  Write diagnostics page for those 300 websites and then create a very large page with 300 IFRAMEs where each IFRAME loads each website’s diagnostics page.

  Or use SCOM.

• by mike johnson

  11 Sep 2010 at 03:43

  

  this is cool, very cool. with 300 websites, I would probably have them render their results to a file. I would then set up a job to poll them all periodically to push results into the database or file share. those that did not report at a specific time can be assumed to be down, but those taht do publish can interpret the posted data and render it into the management interface.

• by Abed Elkassih

  13 Sep 2010 at 22:15

  

  This is one cool idea, saved time.

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• by Derk

  15 Feb 2011 at 09:21

  

  I really like this idea, however I am just getting back into programming and would really like to have a sample project to use as an example to learn from. Do you have one which you are willing to share?

  Thanks in advance!